What do you think of when you hear the words “female ejaculation”? Come to think of it, the answer may be best kept to yourself. You may have heard that it was banned from being shown in British porn films last year. But what exactly is it?

Researchers have now come a step closer to defining this controversial phenomenon, by performing the first ultrasound scans on women who express large amounts of liquid at orgasm.

Some women express liquid from their urethra when they climax. For some, this consists of a small amount of milky white fluid – this, technically, is the female ejaculate. Other women report “squirting” a much larger amount of fluid – enough to make it look like they’ve wet the bed.

A few small studies have suggested the milky white fluid comes from Skene glands – tiny structures that drain into the urethra. Some in the medical community believe these glands are akin to the male prostate, although their size and shape differ greatly between women and their exact function is unknown.

Climax in the lab
To investigate the nature and origins of the fluid, Samuel Salama, a gynaecologist at the Parly II private hospital in Le Chesnay, France, and his colleagues recruited seven women who report producing large amounts of liquid – comparable to a glass of water – at orgasm.

First, these women were asked to provide a urine sample. An ultrasound scan of their pelvis confirmed that their bladder was completely empty. The women then stimulated themselves through masturbation or with a partner until they were close to having an orgasm – which took between 25 and 60 minutes.

“Some women express liquid from their urethra when they climax”
A second pelvic ultrasound was then performed just before the women climaxed. At the point of orgasm, the squirted fluid was collected in a bag and a final pelvic scan performed.
Even though the women had urinated just before stimulation began, the second scan – performed just before they climaxed – showed that their bladder had completely refilled. Each woman’s final scan showed an empty bladder, meaning the liquid squirted at orgasm almost certainly originated from the bladder.

A chemical analysis was performed on all of the fluid samples. Two women showed no difference between the chemicals present in their urine and the fluid squirted at orgasm.

The other five women had a small amount of prostatic-specific antigen (PSA) present in their squirted fluid – an enzyme not detected in their initial urine sample, but which is part of the “true” female ejaculate

PSA, produced in men by the prostate gland, is more commonly associated with male ejaculate, where its presence helps sperm to swim. In females, says Salama, PSA is produced mainly by the Skene glands.

Two kinds of fluid
Beverly Whipple, a neurophysiologist from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, says that the term female ejaculation should only really refer to the production of the small amount of milky white liquid at orgasm and not the “squirting” investigated in this paper. “This study shows the other two kinds of fluids that can be expelled from the female urethra – urine alone, and urine diluted with substances from the female prostate,” she says.
National Survey of Sex and Behavior that polled nearly 2,000 adults (19 to 59) women reached orgasm 62% of the time with vaginal intercourse, over 80% of the time when they received cunnilingus and 91% of the time when they were penetrated anally also did squirt or ejaculated varying amounts of fluids.
“This study presents convincing evidence that squirting in women is chemically similar to urine, and also contains small amounts of PSA that is present in men’s and women’s true ejaculate,” says Barry Komisaruk, also at Rutgers.

“This study helps to reconcile the controversy over the fluids that many women report being released at orgasm,” he adds. “There are evidently two different fluids, with two different sources. Whether either of these fluids plays a physiological role – that is, whether they serve any adaptive function, is not known.”
Florian Wimpissinger at Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna, Austria, suggests that the presence of PSA in some women’s squirted fluid and not others might be because the emissions from the Skene glands could travel into the bladder at orgasm. It may also have something to do with the known variation in size and shape of the glands, or be that some women don’t produce PSA in the first place.

Every woman capable
Why some women experience these different types of ejaculation and others don’t is not yet clear, says Salama, but he believes every woman is capable of squirting “if their partner knows what they are doing”.

For now, Salama is not investigating that particular avenue, but instead working on a protocol to test whether the kidneys work faster to produce urine during sexual stimulation than at other times, and if so, why.
The ban on female ejaculation in UK porn is based on the fact that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) considers films which include material featuring “urolagnia” – sexual pleasure associated with urination – as obscene under the UK Obscene Publications Act.

However, the wording of the law actually appears to be referring to squirting – not female ejaculation. So this new paper may support the current legal position, since it shows it is essentially involuntary urination. Presumably, under current UK law, if a woman were to have what is considered a true female ejaculation – the expulsion of a small amount of milky white fluid – and the BBFC were satisfied that this did not contain urea – this act would not be subject to the ban.

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Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy’s fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy’s ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection.

LEO TOLSTOY died one hundred and eight years ago today, aged 82. His last days and hours succumbing to pneumonia in a railway master’s house were followed by the entire world. A special telegraphic wire was installed in Astapovo to transmit news about the state of his health, and newspapers carried reports from the Russian and foreign press. Tostoy was hardly aware of all the commotion.

Nine days earlier he had left his estate in Yasnaya Polyana in secret before dawn, accompanied by his doctor. Having contemplated leaving home several times before, he decided it was finally time to break away from his family life, from the rows over his literary heritage, from the battles between his wife and his secretary. On the night of his escape he wrote that he was doing what people of his age do: leaving the worldly life to spend his last days in quiet and solitude.

On the way to the station he stopped at Shemardino convent to see his sister. He stayed the night in a hotel by a monastery, and again left at four in the morning, heading south. He did not get very far, reaching Astapovo with a high fever.
His escape from Yasnaya Polyana inspired his contemporaries with awe. It was seen as a heroic release from the constraints of life, the removal of the last barriers between him and the God. (“The release of Tolstoy” was the title of a wonderful account of Tolstoy’s last days by Ivan Bunin, a Russian poet and writer who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1933.) Tolstoy’s death—like his life—was a monumental event, particularly in Russia. Writers, artists, followers and peasants flocked to his funeral. Trains from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana, where he was brought after his death, were packed. (The government forbade the running of extra trains.)

A “cinematograph” filmed the coffin being carried by peasants. A choir of 100 people sang “Eternal Memory” and a procession of some 10,000 people in black coats followed the coffin. There were no clergymen at the funeral. Tolstoy was excommunicated by the Orthodox Church. His relationship with God did not need intermediaries.

Leopold Sulerzhitsky, one of Tolstoy’s friends and followers, once wrote in a letter that there were two Tolstoys—the great and the real. “The great has remained and will remain for ever, and that is why he is not lost, but the kind friend, tender and patient, full of humility is gone for ever.” This assessment is in keeping with a new biography of the man by Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russian Life”. Informative and detailed, with the facts of Tolstoy’s life and the usual tributes to his ideas, the book sadly lacks the flare necessary for breaking beyond the obvious.
“I fear the death of Tolstoy,” Anton Chekhov once observed. “If he were to die, a large empty space would appear in my life… So long as he lives, bad taste in literature, all vulgarity, insolence and snivelling, all crude, embittered vainglory, will stay banished into the outer darkness.” Chekhov never lived to see Tolstoy’s death, having died of tuberculosis six years before him at the more gentle age of 44. But he was right to understand that Tolstoy’s presence imposed certain ethical restrictions on Russian society.

Devastatingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, the 100th anniversary of Tolstoy’s death is hardly marked in Russia. Tolstoy was a man who opposed state violence, who considered the Church’s union with the state as blasphemous, who denounced pseudo-patriotism, and who wrote to Alexander III asking him to pardon those who assassinated his father. These principles are firmly out of fashion in today’s Russia. By turning Tolstoy into an icon, the Soviets ultimately hollowed him out.
Personal life
On September 23, 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior and the daughter of a court physician. She was called Sonya, the Russian diminutive of Sofia, by her family and friends. They had 13 children, eight of whom survived childhood
Tolstoy’s wife Sophia and their daughter Alexandra
The marriage was marked from the outset by sexual passion and emotional insensitivity when Tolstoy, on the eve of their marriage, gave her his diaries detailing his extensive sexual past and the fact that one of the serfs on his estate had borne him a son. Even so, their early married life was happy and allowed Tolstoy much freedom and the support system to compose War and Peace and Anna Karenina with Sonya acting as his secretary, editor, and financial manager. Sonya was copying and handwriting his epic works time after time. Tolstoy would continue editing War & Peace and had to have clean final drafts to be delivered to the publisher

However, their later life together has been described by A. N. Wilson as one of the unhappiest in literary history. Tolstoy’s relationship with his wife deteriorated as his beliefs became increasingly radical. This saw him seeking to reject his inherited and earned wealth, including the renunciation of the copyrights on his earlier works.

The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union, and Leo Tolstoy’s relatives and descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Among them are Swedish singer Viktoria Tolstoy and Swedish landowner Christopher Paus, Herresta.
A recent political manifesto published by Nikita Mikhalkov, one of Russia’s most odious, wealthy and Kremlin-favoured film directors, is a good example of the country’s dreary move away from Tolstoy’s ideals. Called “Right and Truth”, the 10,000-word call for “enlightened conservatism” draws on the ideas of Konstantin Pobedonostsev, one of Russia’s most reactionary thinkers, who viewed Tolstoy as one of his most dangerous enemies. (He once denounced democracy as “the insupportable dictatorship of vulgar crowd”, and saw Tolstoy’s non-violent resistance as a real threat.) As a senior figure in the Church, Pobedonostsev helped to initiate Tolstoy’s excommunication. In 1899 the Holy Synod banned all prayers in Tolstoy’s memory after his death.

A hundred and eight years after Tolstoy’s death, this ban feels very much in place in Russia today.

Nina Dølvik Brochmann, M.D. wants to empower women through good sexual education.
Nina Dølvik Brochmann, M.D. is spreading medical expertise and enthusiasm for sexual health as a teacher for teenagers, sex workers and refugees. With her collaborator Ellen Støkken Dahl, she has built up one of Norway’s most popular health blogs, Underlivet (The Life Below/The Genitals). After being frustrated by the amount of medical misconceptions and shame that surrounded the female body, she and Dahl wrote the popular science book, The Wonder Down Under: The Insider’s Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina. This humorous and non-judgmental medical guidebook to the female genitalia has taken the world by storm and is currently being translated into more than 30 languages. She has a B.A. in political science from Columbia University (CC ’10), and she currently works as doctor and writer based in Oslo, Norway

Ellen Støkken Dahl is spreading medical expertise and enthusiasm for sexual health as a teacher for teenagers, sex workers and refugees.
Ellen Støkken Dahl wishes to empower women through good sexual education. With her collaborator Nina Dølvik Brochmann, she has built up one of Norway’s most popular health blogs, Underlivet (The Life Below/The Genitals). After being frustrated by the amount of medical misconceptions and shame that surrounded the female body, she and Brochmann wrote the popular science book, The Wonder Down Under: The Insider’s Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina.
This humorous and non-judgmental medical guidebook to the female genitalia has taken the world by storm and is currently being translated into more than 30 languages. She currently works as doctor and writer based in Oslo, Norway.
The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we’re told about female virginity and the hymen.

Working from the mummy, scientists from the University of Bristol brought the 3,400-year-old Queen – thought to be Tutankhamun’s mother – to life using 3D imaging technology.

Queen Nefertiti’s bust was created using 3D imaging technology
Then, paleoartist Elisabeth Dayes recreated Nefertiti’s face on the bust, with the entire process taking more than 500 hours.

“This remarkable face seems to be consistent with ancient representations of Nefertiti,” said Aidan Dodson, an Egyptologist at Bristol University who was involved in the project.

The badly damaged mummy of the woman nicknamed the “Younger Lady” was uncovered in a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1898.

Nefertiti was believed to have been queen alongside Pharaoh Akhenaten from 1353 to 1336 BC, and may have gone on to rule Egypt herself after her husband.

Her iconic bust, believed to be created around 1340 BC, was rediscovered in 1912 and is now displayed in the Neues Museum in Berlin.
Who was Queen Nefertiti?
An Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty, Nefertiti may have been the mother of King Tutankhamun
Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the mid-1300s BC
It is believed she was 15 when she wed
She and the pharaoh helped establish the Aten cult: a religious mythology that defined Aten (the sun) as the most important god in Egypt’s polytheistic canon
Theories suggest she may have continued to rule Egypt after her husband’s death
Her iconic sanstone bust, rediscovered in 1913, is displayed at Berlin’s Neues Museum.
But, the latest 3D replica of her face is notably different: depicting a lighter skin tone, which some people claim is inaccurate.

Meanwhile, Lagos-based singer Jon Ogah said this representation of the queen was not her “true black self.” Others on Twitter also chimed in, poking fun at the model’s skin tone and labelling it a “lie.”

Similar debate was prompted by the recent revelation that Britain’s oldest complete skeleton (known as Cheddar Man) had “dark to black” skin, based on a groundbreaking DNA analysis.

The skin tone outrage aside, the new bust is being praised for its accurate depiction of the queen’s muscle tone and skin tissue depth.

“Nefertiti is remembered as one of the most beautiful women in history, but her accomplishments are anything but skin deep,” said Josh Gates, host of the Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown, the show on which Nefertiti’s new face was unveiled.

“She was a powerful pharaoh and ruled during one of the most prosperous times in the ancient world. But like many of history’s most important female figures, her legacy has been obscured.”

Josh Gabbatiss
Excavation of an ancient Egyptian site has found evidence of beer and bread-making in a newly discovered building complex.

The city of Tell Edfu, located around 400 miles south of Cairo in the Nile Valley, has been explored by archaeologists for the past 16 years.

At the end of 2017, researchers from the University of Chicago found a complex of buildings that marked the earliest point of the town’s occupation.

They dated from around 2400 BCE – the so-called “Old Kingdom” period of ancient Egypt, when the great pyramids were built.

A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, from the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, circa 2009–1998 BC
Archaeologists discover mysteries of Egyptian civilisation in newly-discovered ruins
The structures consist of two large mudbrick buildings surrounded by vast open courtyards and workshops.

“It’s a wonderful find because we have so little information about this era of settlement in the southern provinces,” said Professor Nadine Moeller, an Egyptian archaeology specialist who co-led the excavation.

“We don’t know any such similar complexes for the Old Kingdom.”

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Ancient Mexican structure is a ‘miniature model of the universe’
The excavation uncovered storage containers and other artefacts in the workshops that suggested the towns inhabitants had been brewing beer and making bread on the site.

There was also evidence for copper smelting in the complex, which the archaeologists think was built to provide accommodation for important officials sent to oversee the mining of precious minerals from the eastern deserts.

Underneath the floors of the buildings the archaeologists discovered stamps marked with the name, in hieroglyphs, of an official who led a group of prospectors to mine for the pharaoh Djedkare-Isesi – the penultimate rule of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty.

“It’s just about this time that the Egyptian royalty, until then focused on the northern area directly around the capital Memphis, began to expand its reach after a period of contraction during the fourth and much of the fifth dynasties,” said Professor Moeller.

The use of Edfu as a departure point for expeditions to the east was further confirmed by the presence of shells from the Red Sea and rare imported ceramics from the ancient civilisation of Nubia, in what is now Sudan.

“This is a first sign that the ancient city of Edfu was evolving into an important departure point for large expeditions leaving for the Eastern desert regions, and possibly the Red Sea shore, located about 125 miles to the east,” Professor Moeller added.

The researchers also said the building may have had religious or cult ties, given their proximity to the temple of the falcon god Horus.
“It’s such a unique site. We’ve had a hard time finding architectural parallels, because no other settlement in Upper Egypt has such extensive remains from this time period,” said Professor Moeller.

Police arrested Ekaterina, after a video of one of her latest shows in the country went viral

She allegedly performed wearing no underwear

Police later arrested the dancer on suspicion of inciting young people to disobedience and immorality.

Egyptian prosecutor Hatim Fadl said: “Rules for the dance performance oblige the performer to wear underwear of any colour but beige.

“Gawhara did not have any underwear, and of course it was provocative.”

Ekaterina’s friend Anton claims that the company that hired her is already working with lawyers to resolve the issue.
Police later arrested the dancer on suspicion of inciting young people to disobedience and immorality

She has been released on bail of £204 ($US 285).

Local media report that the General Directorate of the Police of Tourism and Antiquities held that Ms Andreeva was wearing a non-standard outfit to dance in and that she had “flaunted” her body.

There were also reports that she did not have a necessary work permit.

The next legal step is not clear but it is reported that she is temporarily banned from dancing

A limited-edition chocolate bar that is made from the beans of ancient cacao trees in Ecuador and sells for $385 may very well be the world’s most expensive chocolate bar.

“We make chocolate with the oldest and the rarest variety of cacao on earth,” Jerry Toth, co-founder of To’ak, an Ecuadorian chocolate company, told FOX Business.

To’ak ages the beans for four years in a French oak cognac cask, which drives up the price tag.

The company has partnered with multiple retailers around the world including Harrods in London, 2beans in New York, Wally’s Wine & Spirits in Los Angeles as well as two locations in China.

The beans come from a native variety known as Nacional and were on the verge of extinction until Toth and his business partner, Carl Schweizer, stumbled across a valley in Ecuador that had a few old cacao trees left.Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
The world’s most expensive chocolate: Here’s what it tastes like
Calling all chocolate lovers. Jerry Toth, founder of To’ak, unwraps the world’s most expensive chocolate bar. At $385 a bar, here’s what makes it so special and what it tastes like.

“We actually had DNA tests done to make sure they were 100% genetic matches to the Nacional beans,” Toth said.
tree beans
The company said it has planted a seed bank of cacao trees in Ecuador to ensure production over the next decade.

The partners decided to establish To’ak in 2013 and produce limited-edition bars for chocoholics around the world. Since its launch, the company has completely sold out each edition of the bars it has released, with about 100 bars per edition.

“Our trees have extremely low yields, causing us to be limited on what we can produce,” he said.
If you’re on a budget, the company also offers a $355 chocolate bar that has been aged for two years in a single-malt whisky cask. Its first chocolate bar, the El Nino Harvest, sells for $275.
“It’s kind of like what you would do with a really expensive bottle of whiskey,” Toth said. “Our customers save it for a long time and wait for the right moment to break it out.”
As for taste, Toth describes his candy as a dark chocolate with caramel and fruit notes with hints of kelp and sea water

“The Billionaire’s Margarita”
If you’re a margarita lover—and you have deep pockets—the margarita of your dreams is here.

The upscale London Hotel in New York City is now selling the ‘Billionaire’s Margarita’ for the price of $1200 per glass after scoring a bottle of the ultra-exclusive Patron en Lalique Serie 1, which runs about $7,500 per bottle.

“They only produced 500 bottles of this series. They really wanted to have limited production of it. It’s very unique,” says Jayson Goldstein, Director of Food and Beverage at The London, who created this exotic cocktail.
The London is only one of two locations in New York City that have this coveted tequila.
“It’s really smooth. It’s got really nice vanilla and caramel notes to it with a hint of floral. You still get a little bit of the nice tequila burn which is what you want,” he adds. “So, it only made sense to use other high end spirits to go with it.”

Goldstein also uses a half ounce of Louis XIII Cognac in his recipe, which typically runs about $375 dollars a shot.

“We also just took it a step further and used exotic fruits like Meyer lemon, Key limes, and organic blue agave,” he says.
While the bar has yet sell one just yet, Goldstein says he’s seeing a luxury booze market moving toward high-end tequilas. “I think it’s moving away from the scotches right now,” he adds.

Lisa Hawkins, Vice President of the Distilled Spirits Council says tequila sales are booming in the United States overall.
“Tequila sales grew 9.4% in 2015, with high end and super premium tequilas growing the fastest,” she tells FOXBusiness.com. “The margarita ranks as one of the most popular cocktails in the United States.”
She says that interest has driven the expansion of luxury tequila brands. Super Premium Tequila volumes have skyrocketed 652% since 2002 and account for 2.7 million 9-liter cases today.Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
In 2013, another upscale bar in New York City called 230 Fifth also tried selling a $1200 margarita, expect this one was frozen.

Sal Rozenberg, the Director of 230 fifth, says they sold seven glasses before discontinuing it.

Goldstein admits that while the drink isn’t realistic for most of his guests, he does hope to sell about six or seven of them.

And, he’ll even throw in the glass for free.

THE RECIPE
1.5 oz Patrón en Lalique Serie 1

1 oz Rémy Martin Louis XIII

.5 oz Organic Blue Agave Nectar

.5 oz Fresh Organic Key Lime Juice

.5 oz Fresh Organic Meyer Lemon Juice

10 Dashes House-Made Cara Cara Sour Bitters

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice to chill. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe and garnish with a fresh lime wedge.

Price: $1,200.00

]]>Nuclear Fusion: What It Is And Why It Matters To Youhttp://www.liberallifestyles.com/?p=156352
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:31:18 +0000http://www.liberallifestyles.com/?p=156352Continue reading →]]>There always has been and always will be an energy race. No matter the decade, millennium, or generation, humans have always found themselves in search of the next big thing to power their lives.

In antiquity, the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Asians managed to build grand civilizations using only manual labor. England became one of the leading forces in the world due in part to its embrace of coal.

Now, as we roll into the 22nd century, people are on the lookout for that new big thing – the magical power source that will supplant electricity and give us an affordable, unlimited way to light up our streets and feed our computers.

Many scientists and leading experts in the field believe the answer to this dilemma has been in front of us since the dawn of time. If we really want to find out what our future holds and how to solve the cataclysmic energy crisis that we find ourselves in, we only have to look to the sky for inspiration.

The sun, worshipped throughout generations, is still regarded by many physicists with the same sense of awe as our ancient ancestors. Up there, hanging in the heavens, is a virtually unlimited source of clean energy.

How is the sun connected to the future of energy? Two words: nuclear fusion.

Physics and Fusion

The sun is a G-Type main-sequence star that lies at the very center of our solar system. It was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago, when a series of gravitational collapses of matter within a large molecular cloud occurred. To simplify things, we’ll just call this an explosion.

The fallout of the explosion scattered in an orbital disk and essentially became our solar system. At the very center, still burning white-hot, lay the sun. This central mass became so hot and dense that it initiated a continual nuclear fusion at its core.

That last bit of information, “nuclear fusion”, is what scientists are really interested in. Every second, trillions of hydrogen ions are fusing in the sun’s dense 27 million degree core.

When you combine this with the sun’s massive gravitational force, you suddenly have what many call the Goldilocks Principle (where everything is just right). The sun’s gravitational forces not only capture the moving hydrogen atoms, but also squeeze them together so tightly that they are transformed into the much heavier element, hydrogen.

When this squeezing and transforming takes place, a huge amount of energy is release. This is nuclear fusion.

What’s The Difference Between Fusion and Fission?

Nuclear fusion is based on principles completely different from those of nuclear fission (what we now have in reactors and in bombs). Fission works on the idea of splitting unstable compounds (their atoms) into smaller pieces. It’s a process that does not occur normally in nature and whose energy output is derived primarily from the chain reactions of neutrons.

Fusion, on the other hand, occurs naturally in the universe and is obtained not by the splitting of atoms but by the joining of (or fusion) of two or more lighter atoms into a larger denser one.

Fission comes with built-in inefficiencies. Aside from the fact that it’s an extremely hazardous process that’s difficult to contain, the fuel needed (usually Uranium-235), is expensive to mine and purify. And once used, Uranium rods are amazingly radioactive and require proper disposal and security in order to ensure public safety.

The Promise Of Nuclear Fusion

If we can replicate the nuclear fusion process on Earth, we would be on the verge of a new era in energy. An nuclear fusion energy plant would be capable of providing a virtually limitless, highly efficient, profitable, and clean energy source. In one moment, our dependency on fossil fuels, the energy crisis, worldwide poverty, and many other woes would become a thing of the past.

What sorts of changes could we see?

Propelling Us Into Space

One of the big challenges in colonizing other planets and reaching beyond the moon is our dependency on fossil fuel. In theory, nuclear fusion would not only lift the ban on our ability to travel to Mars and beyond, but its energy output would allow us to actually make the journey comparatively fast.

Minimizing Worldwide Conflict

As a limitless and clean energy source, nuclear fusion would permit humanity to gentrify and to a certain degree, restructure areas of our planet that are currently not only in economical collapse, but in a structural catastrophe. Many of the world’s strife revolves around control of energy sources and the ability to extract fuel. A limitless supply of energy could significantly cut down on worldwide conflict.

End The Worldwide Water Shortage

Only 3% of the world’s water is actually drinkable. The other 97% is undrinkable salt water. The only way to make this water drinkable is to remove the salt. Unfortunately, desalination plants, particularly in rural communities and poor countries, are a pipe dream due to their costs. Nuclear fusion could significantly reduce the hefty price tag of such plants and provide large scale desalination.

Create Clean Energy

Nuclear fusion produces no greenhouse gases or waste. Unlike other nuclear heavy cores, there is little to no radioactive waste and the only byproduct of fusion is helium. The creation of fusion involves only hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium), instead of uranium. it is a safe and relatively non-toxic way of obtaining energy. Unlike nuclear fission energy, which can create catastrophic chain reactions, fusion is much easier to control. And unlike fossil fuel energies, it’s infinitely clearer.

The State of Nuclear Fusion

We are still in the very early stages of nuclear fusion. The process has been replicated on a very small scale already, using three separate methods:

Inertial Confinement Fusion

A pellet of hydrogen is compressed by numerous lasers until the nuclei fuse into helium, which then unleashes a burst of energy.

Magnetic Confinement Fusion

Using magnetic fields, a superheated plasma of fusible material is tightly confined in a reactor. When this happens, nuclear fusion reactions begin to occur.
Magnetized Target Fusion

This is a hybrid of the two methods. Using magnetic fields, superheated plasma is created and confined. Additionally, pistons compress the fuel, leading to a burst of nuclear fusion.

Unfortunately, none of these processes are at the breakeven point yet, where the energy required is equal to the energy created. The goal is to get to the breakeven point, and finally to a point where more energy is created than required.

Over the past year there have been some big wins. Scientists from MIT broke the record for plasma pressure back in October, and in December, South Korean researchers became the first to sustain ‘high performance’ plasma of up to 300 million degrees Celsius (540 million degrees Fahrenheit) for 70 seconds. In Germany, a new type of fusion reactor called the Wendelstein 7-X stellerator has been able to successfully control plasma. But we’re still a long way off being able to put all those pieces together – finding an affordable way to generate plasma at the temperatures required for fusion to occur, and then being able to harness it for long enough to generate energy.

Conclusion

We may be a ways off from having wide-scale nuclear fusion, but we’re certainly headed in the right direction. And the motivation is certainly there to keep pressing on. The first company to master the process will cash in a gold mine and the world will be changed overnight.

Until that time, we’ll have to rely on our rather inefficient methods of energy creation. But we can say that the future is bright.

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Futanari (ふたなり, literally: [to be of] two kinds) is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny.
Beyond Japan, the term is used to describe a commonly pornographic genre of eroge, comics, and anime which includes characters that show both primary sexual characteristics. In today’s language it refers almost exclusively to characters who have an overall feminine body, and have male genitalia (although sometimes may also have both male and female genitalia). In that case the term is also often abbreviated as futa(s)
Historic origins

Stones (with Shimenawa) representing Dōsojin found near Karuizawa, Nagano
Japanese folk religion created diverse fantasies related to sexual characteristics. Traditional vocal pieces that date back hundreds of years deliver rough evidence that a change of gender was not ruled out and that the representation of the gender was used to worship deities such as dōsojin which sometimes had ambiguous gender, being neither male nor female. Leupp adds that the origins might even reach back to the origins of Buddhism, since the deities would not necessarily have a fixed or determinable gender.
Likewise the belief spread that some people could change their gender depending on the lunar phase. The term half-moon (半月 hangetsu) was coined to describe such beings. It is assumed that traditional clothing, which made it more difficult to distinguish men from women like in other cultures, might have had an influence on this development. To restrict women from accessing prohibited areas and to avoid smuggling by hiding items in the belt bag, guard posts were assigned to perform body checks.
In historical records, it can be seen that guards liked to joke about this matter quite frequently, resulting in various stories and even poems. Whether anatomical anomalies, like clitoromegaly or unusual physical development, led to these assumptions remains an open question.
Until 1644, when onnagata actors were required to adopt male hairstyles regardless of the gender they were portraying, actors playing characters like female warriors capitalized on the interest in the futanari quality, which was common in both samurai and commoner society.

In anime and manga
Originally the Japanese language referred to any character or real person that possessed masculine and feminine traits as futanari. This changed in the 1990s as drawn futanari characters became more popular in anime and manga. Today, the term commonly refers to fictional (drawn), female looking, hermaphrodite characters. Futanari is also used as the term for a specific genre within hentai related media (pornographic anime or manga) that depicts such characters.
To differentiate between fictional characters and real trans women, the Japanese language adopted the English-style term newhalf nyūhāfu , which is used for the latter.

Origins
Futanari manga gained somewhat of a following in the 1990s and quickly became a small, yet, pervasive part of the industry, cross-pollinating with multiple genres. Toshiki Yui’s Hot Tails has been described as the best known example of the genre in the West.
In anime aimed at a broad audience, the gender bender or cross-dressing storylines have always been popular. Popular examples include anime such as Ranma ½, Kämpfer and Futaba-Kun Change! (in which the main character changes from male to female) and I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (which takes on a more cross-dressing theme). And as well Wagaya no Oinari-sama.

Muscle car drivers who volunteered for a recent experiment were almost 10 times more likely to possess significantly smaller genitalia than males who partake in other hobbies, recent study shows.
There was a study recently conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine that was released early February concerning a common link between muscle car owners and genetalia. This discovery was made quite by accident. The journal was conducting a study on male hobbies and genetic superiority based on hobby. The initial study took males of several ethnic backgrounds over a large geographic area and grouped them into hobby pattern groups. The purpose of this examination was to determine which hobbies contained the highest percentage of males with desireable genetic traits. Some suspicion was aroused when grouping automobile enthusiasts in regards to their genetalia.

As part of this research on genetics and more specifically, desireable genetic traits, the male sex organ was measured for size as well as a sperm sample taken from each male. There was no substantial evidence relating to the study in sperm count but penis size was another story entirely!
The researchers were astonished to discover that in the muscle car owner group, nearly 80 percent of males were not only the proud owner of some of the fastest cars in the world, but were also the owner of a below average sized penis. 78% of males in the muscle car group to be exact had smaller than average genitalia, while 15% had average sized anatomy, and only 7% were above average.
Although the link between muscle car owners and smaller than normal male genitalia has not been isolated, one acclaimed researcher believes to have an explanation of the new findings.
Dr. Kenneth T. Norris, Professor and Chairman Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with Stanford University School of Medicine was asked for comment.
His comment:
Due to a fragile psyche in many males who feel burdened by societal expectations, alternative escapes are pursued to compensate for this perceived deficiency. It’s not unlike women who seek out plastic surgery such as breast implants. At the core, it’s a matter of low self-esteem. In the case of a male subject, their bravado is in essence repaired with a substitute.”

In Another study from Researchers from the University of South Carolina
Sufferers of penile inadequacy need not live in fear so long as they have something to throw others off the scent.
Ladies – You may want him rev his engine before taking him home. Study links loud exhaust noise to small penis size.
You can hear them coming from miles away; motorcycles, trucks and cars with modified exhaust systems customized to rattle the fillings out of your head. Have you ever wondered about the owner? Now new study is shedding some light on this phenomena.

Researchers from the University of South Carolina released their results on Wednesday which show a direct relationship between the size of a man’s penis to the sounds emanating from his muffler.

Dr. Knoffler explained the studies methodology and findings: “Basically we set up in a parking lot and measured exhaust sound levels, when a motorcycle, truck or car was louder than average we identified the driver and had one of our researchers approach them. The researcher always used the same script ‘Your pipes really turn me on, show me your stuff’. Generally the subject would whip it out on the spot and before he could figure out what was going on we would have him measured, tagged and released.”

“We were really counting on the Dukes of Hazzard Effect to get good data.” The Dukes of Hazzard Effect was well documented in the 1980’s, it was the first research to demonstrate a low IQ among muscle car fans. Later research expanded this group to include NASCAR and monster truck enthusiasts. “You almost feel sorry for these guys, they look so confused when we release them, the few that catch on usually say something about shrinkage before they wander off disappointed.”
Early in the study researchers were having a difficult time obtaining subjects, Dr. Knoffler explains “at the beginning of the study we were using only female research assistants and we had a significant percentage of subjects fail to comply, on a hunch I brought in a male assistant and when a subject rebuffed the female assistants request we sent in the male researcher.

It turns out that quite a number of these guys would rather expose themselves to another man than to a woman. When queried about their sexual orientation however they were emphatic that they were not gay. Although it was beyond the scope of this study I suspect that the Larry Craig Syndrome is playing a role here.” The Larry Craig Syndrome or LCS is used to explain the behavior of a man who is in such deep denial about his homosexuality that he continues to deny it even when presented with direct evidence to the contrary. “It’s way beyond being in the closet”

A surprising finding related to women with loud pipes. Women are 83% less likely to have loud exhaust systems which comes as no surprise, “The unexpected finding was that 37% of the ‘women’ with loud pipes were actually men in drag, of the remainder 22% were actually hermaphrodites which is far in excess of the 0.003% rate for the whole population. “Most women are quite embarrassed to be making so much noise and explain that their boyfriend of husband bought the vehicle”.

The research published this week builds on decades of similar studies measuring penis size among various groups. Dr. Knoffler explains, “Women have long known that men driving sports cars are compensating for being under endowed. The initial studies we conducted conclusively documented this intuition. At the time our studies were quite innovative, women of course had long known that the flashier the car the smaller the package but we were the first team to scientifically demonstrate it.”
“It’s ironic that the biggest pricks are driving BMW’s while simultaneously transporting the smallest pricks”. After the first study was published Dr. Knoffler was contacted by the auto industry. “There was quite a bit of excitement, the Big Three, no pun intended, were really interested in applying this research to sell trucks and cars.

“The entire F150, F250, F350 marketing progression was developed to get men with smaller penises to buy larger trucks. “If you park these trucks side by side arranged from smallest to largest and then measured penises the correlation is as close to 100% as we can measure as the truck gets bigger the penis gets smaller”. “And of course Dodge built their entire vehicle lineup around our research.”

More recently Enzyte(Enzyte promotes “natural male enhancement,”) has used this research to identify and market directly to men with small penises. “Enzyte’s ability to target these men en mass and get them to buy snake oil really demonstrates how inferior these guys feel and to what lengths they will go to compensate.” Although there has been some interest shown by the penis pump retailers however they have, for the time being, opted to send spam to any known email address.
So the next time you are stopped at a light and the motorcycle next to you starts revving the throttle in a deafening roar remember that he’s just compensating for being cheated by a vengeful God with a terrific sense of humor.

Urban Dictionary: small penis car
The bigger the car the smaller the penis.
A small penis car is a big car driven by a man trying to overcompensate for having a small penis